GeoHot Was High When He Posted PS3 Hack
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Meh. Geohot's pretty much a magnificent bastard, can't say I respect him that much though. However I do respect him more than anyone who's response to him involves some kind of violence. Just ends up making you look worse.
Yeah, he still sounds like a royal and complete asshole. Oh well. let him be an asshole as long as he does it on his own time and doesnt hurt anyone. Kharma usually takes care of these things.
EDIT: though I wouldnt mind helping by some rather... um... "morally justified" reasons that could be construed as lawfully illegal.
EDIT: though I wouldnt mind helping by some rather... um... "morally justified" reasons that could be construed as lawfully illegal.
The companies don't actually lose money, at least not in any quantifiable amount.ForgottenPr0digy said:
If they did, you'd see a relatively higher sale of the same game on PS3 than the 360 (relative to owners / per capita).
At least we finally have an explanation to why every single photo we get of him looks worse than the last.
I honestly can't think of any reason why this was reported on. What exactly was your motivation for this news?Greg Tito said:GeoHot Was High When He Posted PS3 Hack
The famous hacker offers a few dirty secrets from his past.
fair share of weed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/tags/geohot?] and popped a few pills.
"I'm the complete opposite of Anonymous," he told The New Yorker. "I'm George Hotz. Everything I do is aboveboard, everything I do is legit."
When Anonymous began #OpSony to fight for Hotz's rights, he was just worried that the Japanese would think he was somehow involved. "I hope to God Sony doesn't think this is me," he thought.
After the lawsuit between Hotz and Sony was settled [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109150-GeoHot-and-Sony-Settle-PS3-Jailbreak-Case], he was even invited to Sony's offices to divulge his methods for rendering the PS3 under his control. "If there were going to be lawyers there," he said, "I was going to be the biggest asshole ever." But the Sony engineering guys were "respectful" and just wanted to learn from him.
The picture that Hotz paints as a "white-hat" hacker or one that operates within his legal rights doesn't exactly jive with some of his behavior.
For example, while running a red light near his residence in Palo Alto, CA, he said. "Fuck these assholes. Stupidest red light ever. It makes no sense at all. I live by morals, I don't live by laws. Laws are something made by assholes."
He also has made his drug use pretty clear. Before a photo shoot celebrating Hotz's victory at the International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007, he admitted to smoking marijuana. "My eyes are bloodshot" in the photo, he said. "It's great."
Drug use also contributed to the public release of the PS3's master key. Hotz said he had taken Vicodin and OxyContin that day which may have made him a little freer with his hacking knowledge. "You just feel good about everything," Hotz remembered.
Still, George Hotz isn't a bad guy. He honestly doesn't believe he is doing anything wrong by hacking computers, phones or gaming consoles, even though major corporations like Sony and Apple may think differently. "This is the struggle of our generation, the struggle between control of information and freedom of information."
In that struggle, GeoHot fights to keep it all free.
Source: New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/07/120507fa_fact_kushner#ixzz1tejPyYNd]
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I'm the kind of person that stands at a crossing and waits for the light to tell me I can walk across, even if the street is entirely empty and I'm the only person there (call me crazy), but I don't think he was saying "hey, I just drove through this red light in the middle of rush hour." What I got from it was him ignoring a red light because there was no cars or people anywhere in the area.Vault101 said:
Not a good idea to pick and choose when to obey traffic lights, but I'm just sayin' I don't think it's as bad as it sounds.
Meh. This story isn't really necessary. I already knew he was a giant asshole and douche. All this story was trying to tell me is that he's an ever bigger asshole and douche. I think the guy needs to be bent over by the law or at least stop using his own self righteous claims as a defense but that's just me.
Sigh... No... no he's not.Greg Tito said:
I'd actually never heard this guy's name until right now.
He will never be anything like, say, Mitnick.
Fine, go ahead.F4LL3N said:
There's a strong connection between morality (means) and law (end). If you are living by morals then you are clearly, to an large extent living by laws. Morality is a law in itself. Even so, this article clearly shows that he can't even live by morals.
Again, no mean to disrespect GeoHot but he's just a fucking teenager. He's going to say shit that makes him seem oh so cool and rebellious.
I can see where the "most recognisable hacker name in the world" viewpoint comes from. There were a couple of weeks last year where geohot was being reported on almost every day and people who were looking into why the psn was down no doubt came across his name. This made many people aware of him when normally they wouldn't have been.Fasckira said:
[sub]As a person who doesn't look into hacker related news unless it affects me, I've never heard of Mitnick.[/sub]
